Apollo Hardware Spotted!

Originally posted by SayonaraJupiter

Apollo Hardware Spotted!,

Really? Did NASA/ASU/CIA find the missing modules Apollo Eagle and Apollo Orion? NO!

Those modules will never be found.

If you mean the ascent stages, you're quite right, as they impacted the Moon and were blown into smithereens. The impact velocity would have been somewhere around 1,600 km/hr.

The descent stages, however, are clearly visible on LRO images.

Originally posted by SLAYER69
Where are the "Rover" Tracks? If anything they should be larger and more numerous than a path of footprints.

Indeed! Couldnt find a reply in thread; did anyone respond why yet?

Originally posted by below

Originally posted by SLAYER69
Where are the "Rover" Tracks? If anything they should be larger and more numerous than a path of footprints.

Indeed! Couldnt find a reply in thread; did anyone respond why yet?

As the wheels were kicking the dust up, a lot of it fell back into the tracks. There was also a lot of terrain where the layer of dust was very shallow and the rovers left hardly any tracks at all. They _are_ larger and more numerous than the foot tracks, if you care to examine the enormous hi-res LRO images.



lunarscience.nasa.gov...

P.S. A much better, and stabilised, version of that video:


And here's the LRO image of that site, with the rover tracks visible. You can see where it made that tight turn (lower part of the image) - lroc.sese.asu.edu...
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LROC Explores the Apollo 16 Landing Site:

reply to post by wildespace

If you mean the ascent stages, you're quite right

I would love to see modern photos of the crash sties of the asent stages.

Originally posted by samkent
reply to post by wildespace

 

If you mean the ascent stages, you're quite right

I would love to see modern photos of the crash sties of the asent stages.

The impact locations for some of the stages are roughly known: airandspace.si.edu...

You could examine the LRO images of those areas and who knows, maybe you will find them. You can use wms.lroc.asu.edu... to zero-in on the locations and access the LROC NAC images. For example, here's one at the approx location of Apollo 12 impact: wms.lroc.asu.edu...